HABERMAS' IDEAL SPEECH SITUATION

[Ralph Dumain]

Thanks again.  Another "but":

At 01:54 PM 10/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Simone Chambers essay in Feminists Read Habermas is probably the closed 
>'real-life' analysis of discursive experimentation - examining the practices 
>and procedures adopted by the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and 
>Justice - the vision being a "bold experiment in a communal life of 
>non-violence where women cooperate and share decision-making through 
>consensus."

But isn't much of academic feminist mythology explicitly
counter-Enlightenment: against rationality, procedures and rules, legalism,
autonomous individuality, etc., and for the mysticism of communion, empathy
and similar mythical (and fictional) feminine qualities? 
 
Has anyone ever applied Habermasian communication analysis to discourse
within the left itself?  How about to African-American discourse?


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